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New Foetus album HALT available for pre-order

JG Thirlwell

The long-awaited new Foetus album HALT is available for pre-order from the Foetus website.
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The album is nine years in the making and marks the close of the Foetus saga. It is 58 minutes in length consists of eleven tracks. The album is available on double vinyl and CD.

The vinyl version comes with printed artwork on the inner sleeves and a 12″ x 24″ poster with an artwork printed on one side and the lyrics on the other. Each record is pressed on different colored vinyl – record one is a red / black blend and record two is a gray / white blend. The album has download card packaged inside, which can be redeemed for a digital version of the album.

The CD is in a six panel digipack with a 24 page booklet with lyrics, sleevenotes and artwork.
Each format comes with different artwork.
Each album is packaged with a new 3″ x 3″ Foetus sticker. HALT will be released and shipped on or around December 25 2025.

From the CD sleeve notes : “HALT deals with themes of war, religion, disease, global warming, anxiety, hypocrisy, conspiracy, death and mortality, among other things…Here the intensity sits closer to the surface.We live in turbulent, uncertain times and that cant help but saturate the work.”

ORDER NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

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Foetus album HALT in mixing stages

JG Thirlwell

JG Thirlwell has been working with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Z’s, Hubble) at Circular Ruin studios in East Williamsburg Brooklyn, mixing the final and ultimate Foetus album. Thirlwell remarks, “Ben is amazing, and the album sounds absolutely monumental and epic”. The album has been recorded over the last seven years at Self Immolation Studios at the Ectopic Ents HQ in Brooklyn, NY. As usual, Thirlwell has composed all the tracks and played all the instruments on the album, with special guest appearances from Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Timo Ellis (Netherlands, Cibo Matto), Brendon Randall Myers (Scarcity, Dither, Glenn Branca), Laura Wolf, Sami Stevens, Simon Hanes (Tredici Bacci) and Jake Baldwin. The album will be entitled HALT and is slated for release on November 5, 2025 on Ectopic Ents. Stay tuned.